I think you're in an uncanny valley here. Single metro area destroys a lot of the benefit to workers of WFH. It's not about not going to the office. It's about

I think you're in an uncanny valley here. Single metro area destroys a lot of the benefit to workers of WFH. It's not about not going to the office. It's about breaking real state. You're also losing a big benefit to the employer: the ability to hire the best talent from a pool of 300+ million people instead of those in just one metro area. This plan gets you the downsides of WFH, namely that it's harder to casually communicate, without the upsides to either yourself or the employee. Go all-in on remote or don't. BTW the difference in real estate cost between say the SF Bay Area and most of the rest of the USA is so great it'd be cheaper to fly everyone to SF every 30-60 days than to pay the salary premium to afford housing there. (... and it's not like employees are pocketing that salary... it all goes to real estate.)